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House Ground Floor
The ground floor shows many signs of the changes made to the building throughout its history. These include widening the whole building and adding an extension which has left what was an outside wall inside.
The timber framed wall, now incorporated in the house was once the west end outside wall.
The original arrangement of the rooms has been lost through later alterations.
The rooms would have been narrow, and long from front to back with the entrance directly into the old kitchen where a door exists now, or in number 14 using the back of the stack as one side of the passage. It was a single-storey building with the upper floor in the roof.
The good standard of decoration on the beams and fireplace in the main ground floor room suggest that it is the high end, or hall probably also serving as the kitchen and (originally) unheated parlour.
The fireplace to the west (house no.14) was the low or service end, reached through a redundant doorway to the left of the fireplace, now hidden on the stairwell to a later cellar. This would have been a storage area containing buttery/pantry and wash house.
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